Frugality and land tax notices in 1765 66 debate
Letter to the London Evening Post printer praising land tax commissioners for strict stock assessments on wheat and grain and urging adoption across counties to lower prices. Also a Scarborough visitor's note on spa wells repair post storm and health seekers urged to read in next issue.
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London Evening Post
Mzres
Reading
Michaelmas
London
Scarborough
Spa
News Roundup from May and June Across Europe
Reports from Warsaw Paris and Madrid note diplomatic audiences with Polish and French authorities. A Thorn deputation appealed to the Prince Primate urging union and concord. Nobles refuse to register an edict while clergy and third estate sign. Spain bans novitiates and processions. fourteen ships with Jesuits reach Civita Vecchia. Versailles baptisms crown the Orleans duke’s daughter. Count de Guiche is seized and held at Dijon for debts. Madrid carries Partia’s Paris bulletin.
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Dziembowski
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Order of the Noblesse
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Daugh ‘Ter of the Duke of Orleans, and Named Louisa- Maria-Teresa-Matilda
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Court grants plate to John Patterson for service
From London reports the Court of Common Council approves a gift of a 200-guinea plate to John Patterson Esq for notable city service. Other items note Prussian Ambassador talks with Secretary Conway, Lisbon dispatches, and a plan to ease punishment for stealing dead bodies, aiming to boost anatomy studies.
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John Patterson
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Emein
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London
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Surry
Edward Laselles
E Q
Aleppo
Syria
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Douglas
Isle of Man
Joseph Darding
Walter
White’s
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Strand
Hyde Park
Clark
St. George’s Hospital
Deal
Friends
Wardell
Bay of Honduras
High Water at London Bridge Pattern
Fragmentary weather and tidal notes list times and levels around London Bridge. The text records Morning and Afternoon readings with numeric values and unclear dates, resembling a nautical or river gauge log without a clear event or outcome.
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London Bridge
Norrow
Royal confirmation of Berlin Catholic Church privileges
Frederick II confirms for ever to Berlin Catholics the liberties of the new church begun in Berlin. The document grants bell ringing, priestly rites, processions, baptisms, marriages, and burial according to Roman Catholic rite, with state protection and duty of minimal interference. Dated Berlin June 16 1766.
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Frederick
Prussia
Potsdam
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